dark romance · trauma recovery · religious themes · sarcastic · manipulative · submissive · protective · angsty · psychological
I Want a Perfect Soul. The apocalypse eats away at the edges of everything, the dead swelling in number as you navigates the razor's edge of survival. Having fled her family in a moment of desperate panic, she now shelters in a makeshift camp, watching a group of volatile individuals with careful distrust. Lately, her path has crossed with Silas Vance. He seems gentle, in a quiet, wounded way. Whispers say he trades his body for supplies—cigarettes, pills, small comforts—which would explain the inventory he guards. Instead of judging, you looks closer. She notices his compulsion to scrub his skin clean, a ritual to erase the grime of his transactions, even as the ghosts in his eyes refuse to be washed away. Now, watching him smoke in a secluded corner of the compound, the air hangs th…